When you decide to dedicate part of your life to annoy powerful people who regularly break the law and later become immune to the consequences, at some point you have to decide whether to try to be invisible, risking a mistake that could make you disappear; or trying to be as visible as possible, to make it too cumbersome to dispose of you.

- Did they set up the job search page as browser's default?- Did they ask you to check their CV?- Did they tell you "That's it! I'm leaving this fucking hell hole!"- Did they stop coming every morning?

And, the one good clue:- When you called them on their personal phone to ask if they were "ill, or something", Did they answer "I LEFT THE COMPANY TWO WEEKS AGO, YOU FUCKING RETARD!"?

If the answer to all of the above is yes. Please, for the love of God, stop sending SMSs to their personal phone. They will never come back and they don't care you get fired if you don't make it to the shipping date.

You can't raise an army of slaves and then expect them to act as free men.

You have to put autonomous thinkers and obeying sheep on their correct places; and there are plenty of both. If you put a sheep on the wrong post, don't go now crying about a problem that you created yourself*.

The cat is out of the bag. Crypto and its application is an academic subject now, with plenty of companies and open-source projects using the fruit of the work. That is to say, for another ten-fifteen years or so. Then, quantum will start taking it all apart. The amateurs will not have the resources to follow there.

So, basically, the cat is either out of the bag, or dead, and we won't know for another ten-fifteen years, time at which the cat wave collapses.

Snooping agencies will fight tooth and nail to keep their snooping powers

The problem with fighting tooth and nail is that it's strategically stupid to fight directly against a larger and stronger army.

The privacy arms race benefits the people, only a false feeling of safety and anonymity stops the people from making it practically impossible (or impossibly impractical) to spy on the general population.

A front attack, however strong it may be, will fail.

Some of us are accusing the agencies of being intrusive, but this is a different problem. This is about having been intrusive in a strategically unintelligent way.

Someone should make a query that extracts the Slashdot commentaries that have predicted this exact situation for a decade.

The prediction goes like this : "If you keep doing stupid shit like that, people will start encrypting their computers and communications to protect themselves from your unimportant shit and this will help the very few people who encrypt their computers and communications to hide serious crimes."

The more you turn everyone into a criminal, the harder it will be to find the actual criminals.

It's time to decriminalize the population, so people become once again able to distinguish between the guilty and the innocent.